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unusual facts about Army Council


Army Council

Ulster Army Council, set up in 1973 as an umbrella group by the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force to co-ordinate joint paramilitary operations.


Billy McKee

A faction led by Adams managed to get McKee voted off the Army Council in 1977, effectively forcing him out of the leadership of the organisation.

Ivor Bell

Ivor Malachy Bell is an Irish republican, and a former volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who later became Chief of Staff on the Army Council.

McLeod Reorganisation of Army Logistics

The Committee was established at the direction of the Army Council in March 1963 and it was led by General Sir Roderick McLeod.


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Liam Tobin

Tobin was placed on the Army Council and was Director of Intelligence from September 1922 until his appointment as Senior Aide-de-Camp to the new Governor General, Tim Healy in November 1922.

Roy Greenslade

He has had a house in County Donegal for many years, and a close personal friend is Pat Doherty, whom from 1988 until 2009 was vice president of Sinn Fein, and who has been publicly named as a former member of the IRA Army Council.